Four Escambia Middle Schools best state average in math

Escambia County has nine public middle schools. Four of them beat the state average for students who scored 3 or higher on the math portion…

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Little or improvement in FCAT math

As with reading, Escambia School District was below the state average for percentage of students who score 3 or above on the math tests. Seventh…

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Little improvement in FCAT reading, grades 4-10

The FCAT reading scores show a slight improvement for Escambia County, but all its grades, except for ninth, had a lower percentage of students score…

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Buzz: Escambia High in lockdown

A parent just called to tell me that Escambia High School went into lockdown this morning. An armed trespasser was seen on campus. Escambia County…

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Video saves Hernando teacher from prosecution

This news story from the St. Pete Times has me wondering if the School District should invest in video cameras in the classrooms, at least…

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Buzz: Santa Rosa school district avoids another lawsuit

Did you notice last week that most of the recipients of the administrative raises were female? The word I’m hearing is that discrepancies were so…

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Escambia Co. improves literacy by 5 pts, Santa Rosa 13 pts.

I am a numbers geek. Looking at the third grade FCAT scores that were released this week, I became curious as to how prepared these…

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Top and Bottom Third Grade Classes, based on 2011 FCAT

Top 10 Third Grade Classes—Three Charter Schools are in the top 10: MATH READING PENSACOLA BEACH CHARTER SCHOOL 100 100 200 BYRNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC….

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Escambia FCAT – Third Grade Math

Three highest performing third grades were at Pensacola Beach Charter (100 percent scoring 3 or above), Byrneville Charter (96 percent) and A.K. Suter (95 percent). …

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Escambia FCAT – Third Grade Reading

The Byrneville and Pensacola Beach charter schools have the highest percentage of student scoring 3 or above. The three most improved schools were Spencer Bibbs…

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FCAT overview – not bad

I’m working out of the office this morning. Looked at the test results for the area school districts. Escambia County matched the state average for…

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Hacker hacks Escambia County School District’s websites

Last night, hacker “N3td3v!l” replaced several of the Escambia County School District’s websites with a page that stated “We Love Iran” and images of a…

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